U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison has filled out the Senate’s personal financial disclsoure statements since she became a senator in the 1990s, and after entering the governor’s race she released her income tax returns back to 2001.

So it made sense while talking to Democratic gubernatorial nominee former Houston Mayor Bill White today that I would ask him for his income tax returns during his tenure as Houston’s chief executive.

White pointed out that he has filed the city of Houston financial disclosure forms, but he declined to promise to release his income tax returns as Perry has done. White said he would release information on the returns if there was specific questions.

RATCLIFFE: Will you release your income tax returns back to 2003?

WHITE: We’ll give you and others information that you ask for about, boy, since 2003, I’ve had most all of that in the financial statements. But I have been, there has been, during much of that time a partnership interest and a partnership return attached to the tax returns. But I’ll provide the various adjusted gross income and stuff like that, and a lot of it, but not those schedules.”

RATCLIFFE: Try to explain that to me. Why not?

WHITE: I’m a partner, we’re, other people are partners in those businesses, and those tax returns are proprietary.

RATCLIFFE: But you will release the Schedule A? (Note: this is the schedule that includes items such as home mortgage deductions, property tax deductions and charitable giving.)

WHITE: Or the information in those schedules.

RATCLIFFE: We have Rick Perry’s returns going back to the mid-90s. When Kay became a candidate, she released her’s going back to 2001. Is there a way to release as many of those schedules as possible?

WHITE: We’ll take a look at that.

RATCLIFFE: We’ll take a look at it …

WHITE: We’ll take a look at providing the information, if there’s specific types of information, we’ll provide that type of information. A lot of it is contained, a fair amount of it is contained in the personal financial disclosures which I file every year. But if there’s other types of information, be specific, R.G., and we’ll try to get it to you.”

AUTHOR’s NOTE: If you click on the link above, it will only take you to Perry’s tax returns back to 2006. If White releases his, I’ll update to include some of the previous years. I cut off at 2006 because of how much time it took to scan them in.